Appearantly it's the first car to ever recieve this award.

http://www.germancarfans.com/news.cf...es-benz/1.html

Appearantly the CLS is going to be in b/w the CLK and CL models because the S-class is too small to compete with the new Jags so they're looking for something sporty to fill the void until a new S-class comes out.

Also the SL 55 won some award "best car of 2003" or something. Can't find the link.

Got all the info from Germancarfans.com looks like a pretty good site.

Read that the Audi Novulari (I know I spelt that wrong) won't see production.